Celebrity coaches 0, Uncles 1. For all the hoopla about the best players hiring past champions in an effort to find a distinct advantage, none are left in this first elite championship of 2014. Roger Federer followed Novak Djokovic, who followed Kei Nishikori, who followed Marin Cilic out of the Australian Open. Rafael Nadal is still in the competition and something pretty extraordinary will have to happen for him not to claim his fourteenth grand-slam title tomorrow.

Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Michael Chang and Goran Ivanisevic know all about winning these majors; Uncle Toni Nadal would admit to being afairly